By Debra Cassens Weiss
A Chicago law student who took his 3-year-old daughter to Holy Name Cathedral as a television news crew recorded the event has been arraigned on charges of violating a …

By Richard Amesbury
Charles Taylor has argued that those of us living in North America and Europe are witnessing a shift in our social imaginary from a “Durkheimian” self-understanding, according to which political …

By DIONNE WALKER

ATLANTA — Ordained a United Methodist minister, Rev. Chester Cook has now become a jack of all faiths.
On a recent day, Cook welcomed a Christian-oriented army chaplain, a Muslim family and a Buddhist …

From The Canadian Press
CALGARY – Educators and human rights experts in Alberta are worried that a proposed change to human rights legislation could make it tough to teach a number of controversial subjects.
The change says …

David Smock and Qamar-ul Huda
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Muslims in general and Muslim leaders particularly have often been severely criticized for not more energetically condemning the violent acts of Muslim extremists.
Violent extremists are on one …

From Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor:  Here at home, amid all the losses in the banking and housing worlds, there is one conspicuous exception.  It’s the Islamic practice of doing business without charging or …

By Kate Lunau, Maclean’s Magazine
Every day, Mohamed Hadi wakes up before sunrise for morning prayer.
The 19-year-old then boards a bus for the 90-minute ride from his home in Richmond, B.C., to the campus of Simon …

By Patrick Oppmann
SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) — Ann Holmes Redding has what could be called a crisis of faiths.
For nearly 30 years, Redding has been an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. Her priesthood ended Wednesday …

Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Friday 27 March 2009 09.00 GMT
The question: Is religion good for women?
I am irked by this question, the sense it carries with it that women are some kind of second best, an after-thought …